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PC Gaming Era | January 2019 - Return of the Obra Dinn wins PC Gaming Era GOTY
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Damn shame too, used to read his stuff on PC gamer and early RPS alongside Kieron Gillen and John Walker. John Walker is still good people in my book, just a bit grouchy.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1780513570967116842/
Looks like the update is to consolidate all of the _Commonredist files in one place.
Looks like the update is to consolidate all of the _Commonredist files in one place.
i feel that's pretty much what you can say about all of those onion like websites
Huh, I was literally wondering yesterday why it wasn't done this way.
So that THQ guy was a bullshitter huh? Knew it the moment he turned up in this thread. Why would a company insider show up in this thread of all places unless he was looking to spread lies. Looked like the actions of someone who knew how to best rile people up and not like that of a company insider. From "Lol, I made that tweet" to "Let me tell you something about sharks man....they eat people!".
You need the 52 game challenge my friend!!!
It isn't all bad. There is some pushing but your not shitting out game completions. Sample the backlog and play what grabs you, just focus on that.
Feels like you can really see where Crosscode took feedback. After the first dungeon the game tends to improve somewhat dramatically. Far less "Go collect a bunch of random shit" side quests, a lot more oriented around secret boss fights / events / challenges, and there's more story for the average one too.
Also why would he say anything about pending future deals that haven't been announced. Those would all be under heavy NDAs and speaking like that would be instant termination.
I am good on beating games
In 2017 I beat 100 games
In 2018 I beat 52
So far in 2019 I beat 7 so far
Anyways, anyone know why so many games are getting a minor update?
Like I have like 80 or so games installed on my gaming laptop and almost half are updating or on queue to update
I disagree, even though it might be tiring going through the same arguments again and again I think it's important to shut down the misinformation being spread.
I see that review bombing Metro games is in full swing. But I don't think that it will achieve anything except giving more ammo to the publishers for pushing no reviews on Epic Store. Deal is done, money is exchanged, there is no going back because Epic has money to pay for everything.
Metro games have a big cult following on PC.
Deep Silver and Koch should have seen this coming. There was no chance this stuff would have just been brushed aside as an ordinary moneyhat. And its only the beginning too. It will get even more nasty closer to release. People can blame Valve and Steam all they want but in the end there is really no other way for Steam users to express their complaints towards publishers who do this type of shit. Forcing long time fans and steam users to invest time/money into another platform unless they want to wait for a year is not gonna be easy.
There have been a new batch of reviews released for ATOM since last week.
8/10: https://www.gamereactor.eu/reviews/727763/Atom+RPG/
8/10: https://www.gamespace.com/reviews/atom-rpg-review-the-motherland-is-waiting-for-you-comrade/
8/10: https://www.mmorpg.com/columns/the-rpg-files-atom-rpg-review-1000013362#bhkhEUKzyrGKf8pX.99
8/10: https://www.gamereactor.eu/reviews/727763/Atom+RPG/
8/10: https://www.gamespace.com/reviews/atom-rpg-review-the-motherland-is-waiting-for-you-comrade/
8/10: https://www.mmorpg.com/columns/the-rpg-files-atom-rpg-review-1000013362#bhkhEUKzyrGKf8pX.99
Issue is that these days publishers in most cases want to silence any criticism toward them and their games no matter if that criticism is justified or not. That is why you will get game footage labeled as Alpha month before game releases, Beta tests 2 weeks before release with claim that it is old build and things will be different at launch, moving reviews to day before launch or in case of some MP games no reviews before launch at all...
Steam Review system is out of their control for better or worse that is why they don't like it and claim that every review bombing is bad.
Valve is just reorganizing the back end so all the backend files that various games need are in one place instead of each game getting them seperatly, but this means all the games need to be slightly reogranized thus all the tiny tiny updates.
I was starting to get concerned with all the pending verifications lol.
Developers are gonna have to deal with it. Trying to silence people who pay your bills every month is just a stupid hill do die on.
Last I checked RE2 has nearly 8k reviews on steam with 96% positive.
My time at Portia with nearly 8k as well and 92% positive.
Gris came out just last month now nearly 4k reviews with 95% positive.
This whole Steam users are toxic movement is complete horseshit and instead of doing everything you can to constantly piss off the community...Devs need to learn from their mistakes and do better next time.
Release a decent game and price it right while avoiding bad pr. Steam is really not that hard.
Of course its overblown.
For every "Review bombing" you have thousands of other games getting legit reviews.
Just look at the chinese games that came out this and last month.
Bladed Fury. 1000 Reviews, very positive. (83%)
Bright Memory. 5500 Reviews, (95%)
Bloody Spell. 723 reviews, very positive (78%)
The Invisible Guardian. 1535 reviews, very positive (90%).
Thats the thing. Maybe its not a "toxic userbase", but legitimate criticism about your own game.
The best turn based strategy game around. Much better than any recent Civ game, the best since Alpha Centauri.
Have a listen to this for more.
We can point to that all year but it is enough for just one mainstream article to say review bombing is an issue that will gain more traction than anything we do. As I said articles about PC gaming are all written without research. Most of the time they are based on what developers/publishers claim and that's it.
The thing is that it IS a problem for like lets say 3 games every year or whatever, ignoring all the other 700 good games that release every year (just look at Tizocs list).
Ive not gotten any of the dlc, as someone not familiar woth the genre should i still hold off to see if id lile the gameplay well enough to explore the dlc?
The base game is more than adequate so yeah. Not heard anything bad about the DLC though.
I am not saying that there are no cases of abuse. Everything that can will be abused at one point. But in this case minimal percentage is presented as store wide issue. And damage is already done as we can see, more and more developers don't like Steam Reviews, or anything that gives customers power.
But whenever someone tells me how Steam Reviews are bad I ask them in what state is Black Ops 4 right now on PC and I am still waiting for answer. Meanwhile I can go to R6 Siege Steam Store page and get my answer right away (player count, balance, bugs...).
I would say waiting is a good idea. Each expansion adds a big new mechanic with a new race that plays well with it, so it is better to know if you like the game and try different races before getting the DLC.
When these minimal percent of idiotic reviews published by people with Iron Crosses in their usernames and sometimes almost openly hateful to certain groups of people or developers political stances it's extremely easy to cherry pick and manipulate the audience's perception of Steam Reviews and PC gamers in general. We know this is a tiny minority of reviews on Steam, so do most of the journalists, but balanced articles don't get your website clicks.
I never said Epic is being stupid. But they are trying to get people into using their store in the worst possible way (from a consumer view), and they are pissing lots of potential customers off by doing that. We'll see if this works out for them, but I really hope it doesn't.
As I said, the gaming industry just like fan enthusiasm when it's one sided.
When it's about the hype, it's so amazing and beautiful and the customers are amazing !
When it's about showing disagreement, it's all about entitled pricks.
In fact, when I see this review bombing, I'm happy and I definitely feel like it was the best idea around.
I don't care about what a bunch of hypocrites think. When a big publisher tries to enforce a shitty decision, people are like "If only we had a way to express disagreement !" "What can you do ? There's nothing we can do about it..."
But when we have a tool to express disapproval: "Wow entitled pricks !"
Before, the only way to show disapproval was boycotting a game... Which was never sending the right message since it could've mean "I don't like the game" "I dont like the IP".
But now ? We have a vocal way to express why we don't like something. And they HATE that. :)
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